This column originally appeared in the Morrison County Record Day of Caring is Astonishing By Joe Nathan Wow! That’s perhaps my single strongest reaction to spending the morning of May 8 in Little Falls, watching more than 1,100 high school students and community members clean their community during the ninth annual “Day of Caring.” […]

This column originally appeared in a number of Minnesota newspapers during August, 2018 How to help students get the glow of community service Aug 17, 2018 By Joe Nathan The North Branch Area Public Schools district is doing something that I hope every Minnesota school will try: Every May it has a Community […]

This column originally appeared on hometownsource.com, August 3, 2017 http://hometownsource.com/2017/08/03/joe-nathan-column-family-concerns-expanded-pseo-opportunities/ Family Concerns expanded PSEO opportunities “This isn’t right!” That’s what Rep. Jenifer Loon, R-Eden Prairie, told Minnesota state legislators after talking with parents and students from southwestern Minnesota. Many legislators, including Rep. Ron Kresha, from the Little Falls area (who chaired a hearing on Postsecondary Enrollment […]

This column originally appeared in www.hometownsource.com, June 7, 2017 Sandbagging and other summer service projects By Joe Nathan on June 7, 2017 at 9:22 am Sandbagging on the St. Croix River is one of our family’s favorite memories. We joined with hundreds of others some years ago to help Afton, Minnesota, fend off the rising […]

Minnesota educators, students, parents and policy-makers received another honor last week: the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools ranked our state’s charter law as number one in the country. Thanks to a strong law, suburban and rural, as well as urban Minnesota families have high quality options, including district and charter schools. Most Minnesota families […]